Note: I could say it was when my only sibling, my younger brother was diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes when he was hospitalized at age 27 with extremely-high-blood-sugar-caused hallucinations and spent a week in the intensive care ward. (No history of the disease in our family that we were aware of, before that.) Or when my oldest son was diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes when he only in 3rd grade, and the doctor warned me he wouldn't survive the night unless I got him immediately to the nearest children's hospital, where we both lived for the next week as I learned how to keep him alive. But those real-life scares still revisit me in my nightmares.

As for supernatural scares, I truly believe the old farmhouse next door to us, the oldest building on our block, is haunted. And the spirits there are most definitely NOT friendly.

The woman who used to live there, Eva, got to be a good friend of mine. She once told me that she kept all of the lights on in the house at night because her daughters didn't like "the voices" that they'd hear in a dark room. I didn't really believe her. One day my dryer broke and she told me to use hers while she was out grocery shopping. I went down into the house then into basement, which I had never been in before. It had such a low ceiling that I almost had to stoop...and I'm a short woman. I had turned on the light, but it was a dim bulb, and the only windows were high up and didn't give much light down there. As I was putting the clothes into the drier the hairs on the back of my neck started to prickle up and I felt a chill to the air at the same time as I started to hear "whispers". I spoke loudly, saying I was only there to do laundry, then I high-tailed it up the stairs and out the door! I waited until Eva was home to get my laundry, and dried the rest at a laundromat. Years later when the couple who had bought the house from Eva split up and the woman moved out, Eva said to ask the woman if "the voices" were why she was leaving him and the house. When I did, she gave me a funny look and asked "How do you know about them?" The man who still lives there alone, keeps all of the lights in the house on, on both floors and the basement, whenever he's home.

Do you have a ghost encounter to share? Please leave it in a message here. I'm still mostly a skeptic, but I'm open to reconsidering that.

Ready for some more ghost/scary stories? Head to the next author on the list and see what she has to say!

That's right, 4 of my books have been pulled from the usual places. One of my publishers sold their business to a firm I had never heard of. Luckily for me, I was able to get my rights back to all 4 books. I resubmitted them to my new publisher, Eternal Press, and have been given contracts for all 4 of them! Hurray! But this means they will all be coming out next year sometime, after the third book in my Minnesota Romances series.

So for now, you won't be able to find:

Secret LoveUndercover LoversTwo For TuesdayThe Reluctant Bride

You can still read about them here on their pages, but when they are re-released it will be with new covers, new editing and a whole new improved story! Stay tuned for when the new release dates will be.

Also know that I've got a couple of story-lines going for my latest WIPs. Working 2 jobs leaves me little time to write, but I've been squeezing it in when I can. So keep watching for more news. And keep reading!